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OEMS DIE BY OWN POISON GAS AS WIND SHIFTS Hun Divisions, Hit Hard by AI - lied Gunners, Withdrawn for Fresh Troops as Battla Rages. With the French Armies in France, "'June 11. The fierce opposition ; offered by the allied troops appears to have disconcerted the German high command, which expected to be able to reduce the allied ; salient around Bovoo much more easily, jhe enemy guns were very busy : throughout yesterday and last night, but were well countered by the al lied artillery.. . In addition, the wind changed tts direction and tens of thousands of poison gas shells fired by the Ger mans did more damage to themselves than to the allies. ' . Indications show that some of the enemy divisions which started the at tack are already, being withdrawn ' from the line, because of the severity of their casualties and are being re placed by fresh units. This new battle is entirely different ' , in its characteristic features from cither the offensive of March or that of May. The attack along the Mont-didier-N'oyon line was no surprise for ' the allies and the German forces, al 'lhough extremely strong, Save not " submerged the defenders as in the case of the two former efforts, v The armies are fighting it out foot by foqt and it cannot be claimed up lo this writing that the enemy has gained any definite advantage, despite X the fact of the indentation he has made in the allied line. . NEARLY MILLION , AMERICANS NOW ON BATTLE FRONT ' , ' - Washineton. Tune H. More than 700,000 .American soldiers have gone overseas to carry back to trance the encouragement and assistance which LaFayette and Rochambeau brought to America, Secretary Baker told the French Alpine chasseurs m bidding theni farewell here at the base of the Washington monument. The war secretary's last announce ment some weeks ago concerning the - mt of the American forces abroad . was that 500,000 men had sailed for the battle front. . . -" P0RT0 RICO AND : HAWAII TO SEND 17,000 TO FIGHT 'Washington, June 11. Porto Rico and Hawaii were called on by Pro- . vost General Crowder today to furnish 17,000 draft .registrants for the na tional army. Porto Rico was asked to send on Jne-20 and July 1 12,468 men to Camp Las Casas, San Juan, llawai't was directed to send 4,336 to ' Ti,A,stronsr Honolulu, on July 1. Laudet? in tfte'Wat? Zone " 7Z7s fft'S' Personal experiences on tAe Western ttgtttTtg Jron C:r.irscts Let for Building ; Forty Concrete Ships 'Washington June , 11. Contracts for buildig 40 concrete ships of. 1,500 tons each in five government yards 'were awarded today by the shipping board. ' ' : . -The first' ship way at Wilmington will be completed early in July and chary building will commence im- - mediately thereafter. Thf yard at 'Jsan Francisco is in operation, - and preparations for construction of the other three are well under wav. The concrete ship "Faith." first of the big experimental concrete ves sels has completed successfully, a trip from San Francisco to Van Couver; and has sailed for Seattle to take on .cargo for the return trip to tan rrancisco. . :::n ct 1918 Draft May Enlist -: In Navy and Marine Corps Washington, June 10. Men of the 1318 class of draft registrants may en list m the nvy and marine corps, ac tordin'g.to a new ruling .today by Provost Marshal General ; Crowder. Order numbers and serial numbers have net been assigned - the reg istrants,, but this contingency was waived ' I . - - - . - , :r.2te Bill Gives President Power to Take Wire Lines Washington, June It. The presi- dent .would be empowered to take possession of all cable,, telephone and telegraph lines under an amendment to the $12,000,000 army appropriation bill introduced by Isenatpr, jhepparo f Texas, The purpose wDuld be to assure secrecy of military informa tion and to prevent communication among spies. . K , . CjX in Supply of Coal to , Passenger Auto Makers Washington, June ll.-Curtailment of coal supplies to manufacturers ot ritseitger automobiles for the year be ginning August 1, to 25 per cent of the C?.otity consumed in 1917-18, was an 5 rtouncea tonight by the fuel adminis tration. This is one of the steps in a drastic program for reduction of fuel allowed . non-war industries to meet Ce ' expected coal shortage next inter. ' ' - . Trcrnsture Explosion of Shell Kills One Soldier Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, Csl.. -,e IL One soldier was killed here t;Jerdy by the. premature explo- ; of a shell. Unofficial reports say t eight were injured, none fatally. A "time ;8heir was sa to have ' : placed in a 6-in'eh gun and not - i before the charge was ignited. ! man killed was said to have been : I'.ng 40 feet from the gun. J Csttle Over Stewart : "Estate Comes to an End Cicajo, June IL -The court battle r tie $7,000,000 estate Jeff by John . Cuwart, ended today in a compro t tjr which Mrs. Martha C Love . r;dena. Cat, and her young son, S. Clark will receive $250, lire Love is the widow of a 7 f-rtner of Mr. Stewart CHAPTER XVIII. Rest Billets. . "You'll see another phase of the front now, Harry," said Captain God frey, as I turned my eyes to the front once more. 'What's the next stefpf" I asked. "We're heading for a rest billet be hind the lines. There'll be lots of men there who are just out of the trenches. It's a ghastly strain for even the best and most seasoned troops this work in tli trenches. So, after a battalion has been in tor a certain length of time, it's pulled out and sent back to a rest billet." "What do they do there?" I ask.d "Well, f they don't loaf there's none of that in' the British army, these days! , For one thing there isn't the constant danger there is ui front. The men aren't under steady fire. Of course, there's always the chance of a bomb dropping raid bt a Taube or a Fcfkker. The men get a chance to clean up. They get baths, and their clothes are cleaned and dis infected. They fret rid of the cooties vou know what they are?" I could guess. The plague of ver min in the trenches is one of the minor horrors of war. "They do a lot of drilling," God frey went on. "Except for those times in the rest billets, regiments might get a bit slack. In the trenches you know, the routine is strict, but it's different. Men are much more on their own. There aren't any in spections of kit and all that sort of thing not for neatness, anyway. "And. it's a god thing for the sol diers to be neat. It helps discipline. And discipline, in time of war, isn't just a parade ground matter. It means lives every time. Your disci plined man, who's trained to do cer tain things automatically, is the man you can depend on in any sort of emergency, "That's the thin that the Cana dians and the Australiays have had to learn since they came out.' There never were any braver troops than those in-flie world, but at first they didn't have the automatic discipline they needed. That'll" be the first problem in training the new Ameri can armies, too. It's a highly prac tical matter. And so, in the .rest bil lets, they drill the men a noodish bit. It keeps up the morale, ana 1m 3 ! c s tHcfn fitter in vi keener for tVic work when they go back to the trenches." , ''You don't make it sound much like a real rest for them," 1 said. "Oh, but it is, all rteht! They have a comfortable place to sleep. They get better food. The men m the trenches get the best food it's possi ble to give them, but it can't he , cooked much, for there aren't facili ties. Jhe diet gets pretty monoton ous. In the rest billets they get more variety. And they have plenty of free time, and there are hours, when they can go to the estaminct there's al ways one handy, a sort of pub, you know and buy things for themselves. Oh. they have a pretty good time, as you'll see, in a rest billet." I had to take his word for it. .We went bowling along at' a Rood speed, but pretty soon we encountered a de tachment of Somerset men. They halted when they spied our caravan. COPYRIGHT 1918 and so did we. . As usual they recog nized us. ' "You'm Harry Lauder T' said one of them, in the broad 'accent of .is country. "Us has seen' 'ee often!" Johnson was out already, and he and the drivers were unlimbcring the wee piano. It didn't take so long, now that we were getting used to the task, to make ready for a road side concert. While I waited I talked with the men. They were on their way to Ypres. Tommy can't get the name riftht, and long ago ceased try ing to do so. The French and Bel gians call it "F.epre" that's as near as I can (rive it to you !n print at least. . But Tommy, as all the world must know by now, calls' it Wipers, and that is another name that will live as long as British history is told. . The Somerset men squatted in the road while I sang my songs for them, and gave me the most rapt attention. It was hugely gratifying and flatter ing, the silence that alwavs descended upon an audience of soldiers when I sang. There were never any inter ruptions, lint at tne eno ot a song, and during the chorus, which they ' ways wanted to sing with me. as I wanted them to do, too, they made u for their silence. Soon the Rev. Harry Lauder. M." P.. tour was on its way again. The cheers of the Somerset-men sounded i?ayy in our ears, and the cars quick ly picked up speed and bcf?an to mop up the miles at a great rate. And then, suddenly whoa! We were in the midst of soldiers again. This time it was a bunch of motor repair men. - They wandered along the roads, workincr on the trucks and .cars that were abandoned (when they got into trouble, and left along the side of the road. We had seen scores of such wrecks that dav, and I had wondered if they were left there indefinitely Far from it. as I learned now. Squads like this there were 200 men in this particular party were always at work. Many of the cars they sal vaged without difficulty those that had been abandoned because of com paratively minor. engine troubles 05 defects. Others had to Ije towed to a repair shop, or loaded upon other trucks for the journev, if their wheels were out of commission. . Others still were beyond repair, They had been utterly smashed in a collision, maybe, or. as a result of skiddinor. Or they had burned. Some times they had been knocked off the road and generally demoralized bv a shell. And in such cases, often, all that men such as these we ha4 met now could do was to retrieve some parts to be used in repairing other cars in a less hopeless state. , By this time Johnson and the two soldiers chauffeurs had reduced the business of setting, our stage to a fine point. It took us but a very few minutes indeed to be ready for a con cert, and from the time we sighted a potential audience to the moment for the opening number was an almcst incredibly brief period. This time that was a good thin;;, for it was growing late. And so, although the. repair men were loath to let me go, it was .but an abbreviated prorram that,. I "was able to offer to them Thi9 was one of the most enthusiastic audiences I had had yet, for nearly every man there, it turned out, had been what Americans would call a Harry Lauder fan in the old days They had been wont to go again and again to hear me I wanted to say and sing more songs for (hem, but Captain Godfrey was in charge, and I had to obey his orders, reluctant though I was to go on. Our destination was a town called Aubigny rather an old chateau just outside the town. Aubigny was the billet of the 15th division, then in rest Many officers were quartered in "the chateau, as the guests of the French owners, who remained in possession, having refused to clear out, despite the nearness of the actual fighting front. This was a Scots division, I was glad to find. I heard good Scots talk all-around me when I arrived, and it was Scottish hospitality, mingled with French, that awaited us. I know no finer combination, nor one more warming to ' the cockles of a man's heart.' ' Here vthere was luxury, compared to what I had seen that day. As God frey had warned me, the idea of rest ing that the troops had was a bit more strenuous than mine would be. There was no lying and lolling about. Hot though the weather was a deal of foot ball was played, and there were games of one sort and another going on nearly the time when the men were off duty. This division, I learned, had -seen some of the hardest and bloodiest fighting of the whole war. They had been through the great offensive that had pivoted on Arras, and had been sorely knocked about. They had well earned such rest as was coming to them now, and they were getting ready, in the most cheerful way you can imagine, for their next tour of duty in the trenches. They knew about how much time they -would have, and they made the best use they could of it. , V , - New drafts were" coming out daily from home to fill up their sadly de pleted ranks. The new men were quickly drawn in and assimilated Into organizations that had been reduced to mere skeletons. New officers -ere get ting acquainted with their men; that wonderful, thing that is called esprit de corps was being made alt around me. It is a great sight to watch it in the making; it fhelps you to under stand the victories, our laddies have won. : ' : I was glad to see the kilted men of the Scots regiments all about me. It was them, after all, that I had come to see. I wanted to talk to them, and see them here, m France. I had seen them at home, nockirfg to the recruiting offices. I had seen them m their training camps. But this was different.' I love all the sol diers ot the empire, but it is natural, is it no, that my warmest feeling should be for the laddies who wear the kilt, t - ' They were the most cheerful souls. as. 1 saw tnem when they reached their rest camp, that you could imagine. They were laughing and jftking all about us, and when they heard that the Rev. 'Harry Lauder. M. P., tour had arrived they crowded about us to see. They wanted to make sure that I was ' there, and I was greeted in all sorts of dialect that sounded enough, 1 11 be bound, to Godfrey and some of the rest of our party. There were even men who spoke to me in the Gaelic. I saw a good deal, afterward, of these Scots troops. My, how hard they did work while they rested! And what chances they . tdbk of broken bones and bruises in their play! Ye would think, would ye no, that they had enough of that in the trenches, where they got lumps and bruises and sorer hurts" in the run of duty? But no. ao soon as tney came Dacn to their rest billets they must begin to play by knocking the skin and the hair off one. another at sports of va rious sorts, of which foot ball was among the :mildest, that are not by any means to be recommended to those of delicate fiber. (Continued Tomorrow.) . DANCES TAKING - ON AEMY NAMES . NOW THE THING Chicago, June 11. The -"trench trot," the "camouflage waltz," and the "cantonment canter," have displayed the "gavotte," the ''minuette," and the old fashioned waltz, it was said Mon day at the convention of the Interna tional. Dancing Masters' association. Other new dances displayed were the "war stamp,? and the "airplane spin." Plans were announced for a dancing Masters unit, which will soon em bark for France to instruct American soldiers regarding the newest steps.- Employes in Cotton Mills To Get Increase in Pay" Lowell, Mass., June 11. Seven cot ton mills employing 20,000 persons, posted notices today of a 10 per cent increase in pay, effective next Mon day. This makes an increase in wages of approximately 95 per cent in these mills during the last two years. t Everybody reaas cce want aos. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN It has been observed that beau tiful women always have good digestion. If your digestion is faulty take Chamberlain's Tablets and you will look better and feel better. 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